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Thursday, August 30, 2012

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has already said that the owners will lock out the players if a new collective bargaining agreement is not in place by the time the old one expires on Sept. 15, which is now only 16 days away. As the league awaits a counterproposal from the NHLPA on the proposal it submitted on Tuesday – which may or may not come before the end of the week – it released today its national television broadcast schedule for 2012-13.

If the season starts on time, the Devils are scheduled to appear on NBC Sports Network eight times, beginning with their Oct. 17 home game against the Rangers (7:30 p.m. start). They have no games scheduled to be telecast on NBC.

Other Devils’ games to scheduled to be telecast on NBCSN (all 7:30 p.m. starts): at Buffalo on Oct. 24, vs. Montreal on Nov. 20, in Boston on Nov. 27, at Philadelphia on Dec. 19, vs. Tampa Bay on March 5, vs. Philadelphia on March 13, and vs. Boston April 10.

The Devils' local television broadcast schedule (MSG Plus, MSG, etc.) has yet to be announced.

For those outside the New Jersey/New York area, the Devils will have five games televised on the NHL Network in the United States (blacked out in New Jersey/New York because of the local telecast), including Zach Parise’s return to Prudential Center with the Minnesota Wild on Nov. 11 (5 p.m. start) and their Stanley Cup Finals rematch with Los Angeles on Feb. 9 at Prudential Center (1 p.m.). The Devils’ Nov. 3 home game against Pittsburgh, Nov. 9 game at Toronto (Hall of Fame game) and Nov. 30 home game against Phoenix also will be carried on the NHL Network.

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TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.